Grants Database

Democracy Fund collaborates with our grantees, donors, and other partners to strengthen and expand the movement for an inclusive, multiracial democracy. We are proud to have supported more than 400 organizations doing this work.

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Organization Name (A-Z) Grant Amount Type Program Area Year
  • Democracy Rising
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2022

Democracy Rising, a fiscally sponsored project of NEO Philanthropy Inc., works directly with community groups advancing democracy reform to build effective organizing, education, and advocacy strategies and to ensure just implementation.

Project:

Support for Democracy Rising

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access

Grant Length:

Nov 2022 to Oct 2024

Strategy:

Representative Institutions
  • OpenSecrets
  • $10,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2022

Nonpartisan, independent and nonprofit, OpenSecrets is the nation’s premier research group tracking money in U.S. politics and its effect on elections and public policy. Their mission is to track the flow of money in American politics and provide the data and analysis to strengthen democracy.

Project:

Investing in Staff Wellbeing

Foundation Center Topic:

Grant Length:

Oct 2022 to Sep 2023

Strategy:

General
  • Muslim Anti-Racism Collaborative
  • $10,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2022

Muslim Anti-Racism Collaborative (MuslimARC) focused on building capacity within Muslim and allied communities for racial justice. MuslimARC creates anti-racism curriculum and education resources, connects multi-racial and multi-faith networks via storytelling and media, and cultivates racial justice through leadership and community development programs.

Project:

Investing in Staff Wellbeing

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Civic Participation/Public Participation, Other

Grant Length:

Oct 2022 to Sep 2023

Strategy:

General
  • Shoulder to Shoulder
  • $10,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2022

Shoulder to Shoulder, a fiscally sponsored project of The National Religious Campaign Against Torture, trains faith and community leaders to address Islamophobia in their communities.

Project:

Investing in Staff Wellbeing

Foundation Center Topic:

Grant Length:

Oct 2022 to Sep 2023

Strategy:

General
  • Justice Work
  • $10,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2022

Justice Work is a think tank/action lab that incubates path-breaking and creative initiatives to advance social justice. They center marginalized voices to challenge conventional priorities and strategies. They develop long-term partnerships with front-line organizations and academic institutions to strengthen social justice movements and break down siloed spaces.

Project:

Investing in Staff Wellbeing

Foundation Center Topic:

Grant Length:

Oct 2022 to Sep 2023

Strategy:

General
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2022

The Guinier Project, an initiative of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice at Harvard Law School, will examine alternative voting systems through a racial justice lens.

Project:

The Guinier Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access

Grant Length:

Dec 2022 to Nov 2024

Strategy:

Representative Institutions
  • Shoulder to Shoulder
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

Shoulder to Shoulder, a fiscally sponsored project of The National Religious Campaign Against Torture, trains faith and community leaders to address Islamophobia in their communities.

Project:

Shoulder to Shoulder

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Other

Grant Length:

Sep 2022 to Aug 2023

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • BRIDGE Infrastructure Fund
  • $60,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2022

BRIDGE Infrastructure Fund, a fiscally sponsored project of NEO Philanthropy Inc., is an infrastructure, capacity, and people building nonprofit organization designing, growing, and nurturing evergreen, progressive impact in Texas. They are developing their internal capacity to increase long-term sustainability and improve the impact of their work.

Project:

Capacity Building

Foundation Center Topic:

Grant Length:

Oct 2022 to Sep 2023

Strategy:

General
  • Mississippi Votes
  • $10,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2022

Mississippi Votes works to increase voter registration and turnout (specifically within 18-35 voting bloc) through innovative and high-tech engagement programming and outreach strategies. They also engage traditional organizing techniques to cater to the needs of today’s voters.

Project:

Investing in Staff Wellbeing

Foundation Center Topic:

Grant Length:

Oct 2022 to Sep 2023

Strategy:

General
  • Southern Coalition for Social Justice
  • $10,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2022

Southern Coalition for Social Justice (SCSJ) represents individual voters and civic engagement groups in litigation to protect the right to cast a ballot and to ensure that every eligible vote counts equally. They also provide counsel to local community groups regarding redistricting and speak on behalf of clients at local town hall meetings and legislative committees.

Project:

Investing in Staff Wellbeing

Foundation Center Topic:

Grant Length:

Oct 2022 to Sep 2023

Strategy:

General
  • New America Foundation
  • $10,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2022

Ranking Digital Rights (RDR) works to promote freedom of expression and privacy on the internet by creating global standards and incentives for companies to respect and protect users’ rights.

Project:

Investing in Staff Wellbeing

Foundation Center Topic:

Grant Length:

Oct 2022 to Sep 2023

Strategy:

General
  • South Asian Americans Leading Together
  • $10,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2022

South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT) is a nation­al move­ment strat­e­gy and advo­ca­cy orga­ni­za­tion working to promote racial jus­tice through fed­er­al pol­i­cy and advo­ca­cy, local and nation­al part­ner­ships, coali­tion build­ing, and strate­gic com­mu­ni­ca­tions.

Project:

Investing in Staff Wellbeing

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic Integration

Grant Length:

Oct 2022 to Sep 2023

Strategy:

General
  • Tech Talent Project
  • $10,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2022

The Tech Talent Project, a fiscally sponsored project of the New Venture Fund, increases the federal government’s ability to recruit modern technical leaders to achieve critical human, economic, and policy outcomes.

Project:

Investing in Staff Wellbeing

Foundation Center Topic:

Grant Length:

Oct 2022 to Sep 2023

Strategy:

General
  • Government Accountability Project Inc
  • $10,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2022

Government Accountability Project’s mission is to promote corporate and government accountability by protecting whistleblowers, advancing occupational free speech, and empowering citizen activists.

Project:

Investing in Staff Wellbeing

Foundation Center Topic:

Grant Length:

Oct 2022 to Sep 2023

Strategy:

General
  • FairVote
  • $300,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2022

FairVote is a nonpartisan organization working for better elections for all. They research and advance voting reforms that make democracy more functional and representative for every American, with a focus on two key reforms: ranked choice voting and the Fair Representation Act.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access

Grant Length:

Nov 2022 to Oct 2024

Strategy:

Representative Institutions
  • Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
  • $400,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2022

The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press provides pro bono legal representation, amicus curiae support, and other legal resources to protect First Amendment freedoms and the newsgathering rights of journalists.

Project:

General Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy, Media

Grant Length:

Jul 2022 to Aug 2024

Strategy:

Press Freedom
  • Duke University
  • $85,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2022

The DeWitt Wallace Center for Media & Democracy project brings together local news researchers and others to collaborate on a journalism ecosystem funding model that explores how to fund healthy local news ecosystems.

Project:

DeWitt Wallace Center for Media & Democracy Journalism Funding Model Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Jul 2022 to Jun 2023

Strategy:

Ecosystem News
  • Alternative Newsweekly Foundation
  • $50,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2022

Alternative Newsweekly Foundation is a 501(c3) non-profit organization dedicated to supporting news outlets that provide coverage on a local level and strive to achieve exceptional journalism. They are building internal capacity to increase long-term sustainability and improve the impact of their work.

Project:

Capacity Building

Foundation Center Topic:

Grant Length:

Oct 2022 to Sep 2023

Strategy:

General
  • POPVOX Foundation
  • $90,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2022

POPVOX Foundation works to inform and empower people and make government work better for everyone. They reimagine the concept of civic infrastructure and provide new ways for government to share information and engage the public. They are building internal capacity to increase long-term sustainability and improve the impact of their work.

Project:

Capacity Building

Foundation Center Topic:

Grant Length:

Oct 2022 to Sep 2023

Strategy:

General
  • Arab American Institute Foundation
  • $10,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2022

The Arab American Institute Foundation focuses on three buckets of work. Strengthening democracy, protecting civil rights and civil liberties for all, and standing for international peace and human rights. They believe all citizens must be able to fully participate in public life free from bigotry and discrimination.

Project:

Investing in Staff Wellbeing

Foundation Center Topic:

Grant Length:

Oct 2022 to Sep 2023

Strategy:

General
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